Improving the consistency of ocean color data: A step toward climate data records

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Gregg, Watson W ^a   Casey, Nancy W ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

climate; climate data records; ocean color

Indexed keywords

COLOR; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS;

CLIMATE; CLIMATE DATA RECORDS; GLOBAL TRENDS; IN-SITU DATA; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NEW APPROACHES; OCEAN COLOR; SAMPLING BIAS;

BAND STRUCTURE;

EID: 79951979812     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041893     Document Type: Article

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